I remember watching a documentary on PBS "FRONTLINE" called
The Homecoming.
Here's a little blurb about it I found on the net:
In February 1974, Nobel prize-winning author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and expelled from his country. Nearly twenty years after exiling himself in Vermont, FRONTLINE accompanies Solzhenitsyn on his emotional return to his homeland, journeying by train across Russia into his past even as his thoughts turn toward the current troubles plaguing Russia. Followed--and often frustrated by--leagues of journalists, photographers, and camera crews, Solzhenitsyn urges the factory workers, businessmen, and ordinary villagers he meets along the way to have courage.
It's an awesome documentary that will bring tears to your eyes and make your heart ache.
But I'll be darned if I can find out how to purchase a copy of it anywhere.
I'd love to see it. In "Soul in Exile" his son talks about taking that trip with him. (On top of everything else-he raised three remarkable boys).